I hate to break the flow of Regional Contesting discussions, but with the cold
winters here in New England, I'm getting the itch to play with some antenna
designs. I'd like to get one of the many modeling software packages on the
market, but I have no idea which is best or what they look like.
My main requirements for the program are:
1. Easy to use.
2. Produce beam pattern graphs (both E-Plane and H-Plane). Nice graphics
would be a nice extra.
3. Be reasoably accurate
4. Run on a 386 - I don't want a hardware hog.
I'll be building mainly HF wire antennas, but I may want to play with beam/yagi
designs.
Any comments on packages that anyone has (or has used) would be appreciated.
Thanks... Kevin N1EPU
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>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Mon Jan 3 18:27:47 1994
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: K2MM SprINT Results
Message-ID: <9401031827.AA15847@astro.as.utexas.edu>
K2MM says:
I could have SWORN he sent N4BO! Really!
I had 11 Qs with NV6O and messed up sending his call for most of them...
Off to a slow start, confused N6TV and N6TR so ended up with one dupe.
20 held up here until about 0030. Loudest person here (TX) - N6TR.
It was obvious when "Dave" joined in without knowing the rules, I got
several Daves in a row now and then. It would be very easy to sabotage
this contest by sending Ed to everyone and watching it spread. Course,
nobody here would be that wicked. I started as oo7 (it is my login name,
after all), got 007 from my last Q. 130 Qs. Thanks to all for the fun.
Derek AA5BT
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